Rights at work

The TUC is putting the issues of low pay, poor job security and increasing living costs in the spotlight with Fair Pay Fortnight. Here is a contact centre worker’s personal account of being employed on a flexible PBA contract… I read and hear a lot about zero hours contracts in the news, about the struggle…

If David Cameron really wants workers to get a pay rise, then he’s got a funny way of going about it. Over the last five years we have seen a sustained attack on workers’ rights and protection at work, including trade unions. Unions are the last line of defence for workers, so little wonder that…

On Saturday the Home Office released a new strategy for combating modern slavery or forced labour in Britain and abroad. We’re still digesting it, because, surprisingly, we weren’t consulted on it, and we aren’t mentioned in it. And this is not the only example of people trying to address forced labour without a key role for…

NHS workers are taking strike action across the country today, in protest at six years of pay freezes and the growing funding crisis in the health services they work to sustain. Peaceful pickets are out in force, with striking workers taking the message to the public by standing in front of their workplaces, and by…

I was proud to be part of the TUC team supporting Pride in London on Saturday, talking with many marchers about the work trade unions do in fighting for LGBT rights at work. One young man’s story stuck with me in particular. He told me how he had been kicked out of his family home…

There have been a number of breakthroughs for equalities in the world of sport recently; we’ve seen the appointment of the first female football manager, Helena Costa, in France -a move Arsene Wenger has publicly backed. There was the coming out of the first openly gay NFL player, Michael Sam, who emotionally embraced his boyfriend…